battle of the bits

Feb 2019-present
battleofthebits.com/barracks/Profile/argarak/ |

chiptune-oriented competition website with small one hour competitions (OHB battles) and bigger competetitions (majors). tons of different esoteric formats.

lp releases

iteration.2

2023, August
bandcamp | youtube | release post |

third iteration album, containing even vcv tracks, but somehow even weirder. contains 12 tracks, mostly from botb battles, but some are new and original!

intraloops

2022, June
bandcamp | youtube | pattern walkthrough | release post |

first hardware album, with each track composed on the elektron model:samples where one pattern = one track. most sounds are taken from a limited pool of samples generated in vcv rack.

iteration.1

2021, August
bandcamp | youtube | pattern walkthrough | release post |

second iteration album, containing more tracks composed in vcv rack of (subjectively) higher quality! most tracks were composed for previous battles on battle of the bits! contains 13 tracks, 55 minutes long in total.

iteration.0

2020, August
bandcamp | youtube | pattern walkthrough | release post |

first album on my experimental alias "beep-eep". containing vcv rack patches/sketches uploaded to battle of the bits. 7 tracks in total, around 48 minutes long

kickstart

2019, January
bandcamp |

some of my more "quality" modules made in 2018 when I mainly started off making musics, a lot of them are stupidly long and loopy but I thought that was a good thing at the time lol. 10 tracks in total, about an hour and 2 minutes long

ep releases

winter chip xiv: polar journey

March 2019
bandcamp | youtube | pattern walkthrough | release post |

entries for the botb major "winter chip xiv" as an album with pretty inconsistent mastering. this album made me realise that maybe an album per botb major wasn't a thing for me. but i have a set rule that i don't remove albums i have released so it continues to exist ta haunt me. 7 tracks in total (mariopaint entry not included)

featured in
2023, January 29th
BotB Advent Calendar 2022
bandcamp album to the advent calendar 2022 battle of the bits major!
  • tridecagon sequence
2022, July 31th
field recording
bandcamp album to the field recording battle of the bits major!
  • heron transmissions
2021, July 4th
Spring Tracks X
bandcamp album to the spring tracks x battle of the bits major!
  • variable euclidean.x
2021, May 1st
AdLib Techno
bandcamp album to the adlib techno battle of the bits major!
  • hybridisation process on procyon-ii
2021, April 12th
Entropy [2HAC Volume 14]
volume 14 of the two hour album challenge!
  • phase transition delta
2021, March 7th
Winter Chip XVI
bandcamp album to the winter chip xvi battle of the bits major!
  • __ws2.model (as beep-eep)
2020, November 29th
Modular Madness
bandcamp album to the modular madness battle of the bits major!
  • crystalline.elements-iv with tennisers
  • endless xnor fabrication
2020, November 8th
t % 256
bandcamp album to the t % 256 battle of the bits major!
  • pcm.modshape.wv
2020, August 23rd
Summer Chip X
bandcamp album to the summer chip x battle of the bits major!
  • orbit around alpha andromedae I
2020, May 24th
Spring Tracks IX
bandcamp album to the spring tracks ix battle of the bits major! the collab with kleeder isn't real, i've never actually used ntrq
  • [sk]_dream_iteration
2020, April 5th
Pure Data
bandcamp album to the pure data battle of the bits major!
  • click-.point via rtsampler
2020, March 8th
Winter Chip XV
bandcamp album to the winter chip ix battle of the bits major!
  • the technological revolution of 2156
2019, November 3rd
F MAJOR
bandcamp album to the battle of the bits F major!
  • an extra cup of tea
2019, November 3rd
s3xm0dit gauntlet entries
kleeder's compilation album of entries to the s3xmodit gauntlet major on battle of the bits
  • acid 56 with kleeder
2019, November 3rd
s3xm0dit gauntlet
bandcamp album to the s3xm0dit gauntlet battle of the bits major!
  • last minute breaks with MpjV
2019, November 2nd
Time Paradox
album by MpjV featuring one of our collab tracks
  • last minute breaks with MpjV
2019, September 1st
Summer Chip IX
bandcamp album to the summer chip ix battle of the bits major!
  • phase byte [++t]
2019, June 20th
Mushroom Cloud
album by MpjV featuring one of our collab tracks
  • ultimate jazz chillout with MpjV
2019, May 5th
Very Rare Formats
bandcamp album to the very rare formats battle of the bits major!
  • micro vcmtone (1f60e mix)
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